The most terrifying part is that the being that becomes a zombie is fully aware and sentient of what is happening to it. A part of the being’s mind remains active and alert about everything and is aware that it is doing things against its own volition. The being watches as it starts betraying its own kind and yet cannot help itself. It is like watching oneself being buried alive over and over again. This drives the being insane, and yet it continues doing the Ka-Baal’s bidding. It is as if the very soul of the being has been sucked out.
We now know how the Ka-Baal know everything about this world, our beings, and even our ancient history. The Ka-Baal knows about all our worlds and every knowledge that is stored in our memory machines. They have forced our curious caste that they captured to give up every secret that our beings know. We have destroyed every memory machine still within our control in the hope that no more knowledge will be passed to the enemy.
But we are losing the war in this world. Slowly but surely the Ka-Baal are advancing towards the Nest-of-Nests and the heart of our world. Battle after battle we lose and the enemy inches forward. We are not hesitant in dying in battle. It is surviving the battle that mortally scares the warriors. They are terrified of being captured and turned into a zombie. It is not uncommon for warriors to fling themselves to their death in a geyser or down an abyss, at the first indication of defeat, thus making defeat a certainty and a self-fulfilling prophesy.
This atmosphere of gloom and despair has further been heightened by what the Seers are calling the ‘death songs’. The Ka-Baal have very poor hearing, and are mostly deaf to our songs unless sung in a very low voice. This is why our beings captured initially could convey their agony by singing without the Ka-Baal noticing. However their machines are capable of detecting our songs.
The Ka-Baal became wise to the songs being sung. We would have expected them to kill our beings in captivity, or somehow stop the sound from travelling. This is what our beings would have done since it is the most logical thing to do. However the Ka-Baal response was fiendishly evil and beyond any logic that our beings would have been capable of conjuring. This is the hallmark of this spawns of Ka, which make them the beyond terrifying. It makes them the agent of death for our beings.
They used those very tortured songs against us. They recorded the songs, and twisted them in evil ways and then using machine amplified sounds flooded the passages of our world with those sounds for most of the beings in this world to hear them. It has filled the beings of this world with dread and despair which hampers them from even fighting for their own lives.
The final straw was when they started flooding the passages of this world with nerve agent gas. This is one method of attack, which has actually been discussed in metaphysical debates of warrior doctrine. While the warriors were aware of the technical possibility of such an attack, the probability of this attack had been considered so low, that we had made no preparations for this. In our arrogance about our superiority, we never thought it possible for any spawns of Ka to even understand our biology, let alone develop a nerve agent.
There were no antidote prepared, and we have now lost the capability to do new research to develop one for this nerve agent, since we have destroyed all of our memory banks and research facilities. Wearing environmental suits and space suits does prevent immediate exposure to the nerve agent gas, but we do not have enough suits for the millions of beings in our world. Wearing suits only delays the inevitable. When the entire habitat is flooded with gas, one is bound to get exposed to it sooner or later for we cannot be in our suits forever.
We have compartmentalized our habitat by shutting flood control and fire control gates. This has saved many parts of our world for the moment, but we know that this is only temporary reprieve. The enemy is at our gates and hammering it down. The Ka-Baal cannot get any more information from our memory banks, but we have to now consider the biggest memory bank in this world containing almost all the information that our beings know – the millions of beings who are still alive on this world!
We would have all gladly gone out to meet the enemy and our deaths to prevent the enemy from hacking into our minds. This is exactly what the enemy want. The enemy wants to smoke us out. Unfortunately, the enemy does not intend to kill but to make as many of us as zombie slaves as possible to work against our own kind. We cannot let that happen, so the Council of Seers have come to a terrible decision.
It is an unprecedented decision in the long history of our beings, but then this is an unprecedented situation as well. For never have we been wiped out of world that we have settled. We have exterminated and cleansed many worlds and many spawns of Ka, but never have we been exterminated and cleansed from a world.
That is why my world cries out to you all my fellow beings across all our worlds. This is not a cry for help, for we are beyond help. This is a warning and a plea. Do not let our beings and our species be exterminated from this universe, for if there is a spawn of Ka that is capable of doing that, it is Ka-Baal. Do not let our death go to waste, but learn and prepare from the lessons learnt here.
We the millions of beings of this world 12, march towards the liquefaction chambers which overflow with the rotting corpses of the dead, not getting enough time to be digested. The desperate masses of our beings fling themselves into the abyss and the geysers for there aren’t enough liquefaction chambers. Terrified younglings who have not developed enough faculties and understanding, stutter at the edge in fear, only to be thrown in by the warriors.
We the millions of world 12, may be beyond hope and help, but we are not beyond redemption. We do our duty by performing the ultimate sacrifice. In return all we ask my fellow beings is to save our species and thus avenge us.
Retribution (Shaitan Wars) Page 55
